Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001552Dr. Jonathan Potts (1745-1781)
Provenance
Rutter family; Knoedler and Company, New York; Christie's, New York (sale 5794, lot 1, December 7, 1984); private collection, Philadelphia; Frank S. Schwarz & Son, Philadelphia; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.
Exhibition history
Pennsylvania, Allentown Art Museum, The World of Banjamin West, 1962, cat. 62, as Unidentifed Gentleman by Matthew Pratt. Washington DC, National Portrait Gallery, Henry Benbridge: American Portrait Painter, 1971, cat. 46, as Jonathan Potts.
Publications
Robert G. Stewart, "The Portraits of Henry Benbridge," The American Art Journal 2, 2 (Fall 1970) 70 (ill.). The Magazine Antiques 88, 5 (November 1990) p. 912 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Henry Benbridge / American, 1743–1812
- Date
- 1770–76
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 61.6 × 48.9 cm (24 1/4 × 19 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- Philadelphia
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Allan and Sallie Bulley Fund
- Accession no.
- 1990.484
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